Life lessons learned

I am sure some of our readers could come up with some classics here too, without any help from me! Should you happen to have one that readily comes to mind, perhaps you could flick me an email if you get the time. I will probably get to pass yours along to others too, somewhere up ahead in my travels!

Here’s one I didn’t really get, the first time I heard it, way back. Three wise words indeed: ‘Follow the money’. How simple and yet how true. I get it now, perhaps because I’ve had more time to join the dots with this one.

It answers many questions and reveals so much.

To illustrate; when it comes to conflict and war, why is it a common thread to find the same people funding both sides of the war? Puzzling, isn’t it? The answer? Well… just follow the money.

I am reminded right now of a great money quote, attributed to Henry Ford: “Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them.” How true! I’d call that one a classic.

Here’s another piece of wisdom that has its origins centuries ago: “Everything that glitters is not gold”. I surely have learned some of the lessons this one has on offer, as I’ve journeyed through my life.

Yep, you don’t really know what you’ve got until it’s tested. True of jewellery, true of precious metals, and yes, sadly, it’s true of people too! There’s plenty of deceptive and fake stuff out there.

I’ve been around long enough and have a good enough memory to remember most of the alarmist climate predictions that go back over decades. And when they don’t come to pass, the experts in spin, together with their everfawning media lapdogs, simply spin it all away. Yep, more of the same old same old, in spades!

If you dare to ask some questions, you will be smeared for sure.

Allow me the space to post a few headlines here:

From 1974 – ‘Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast’.

‘Rising Sea Levels Will Obliterate Nations If Nothing Done By 2000’.

2008 on Good Morning America – ‘New York City will be under water from climate change by 2015’.

‘Arctic Will Be Ice Free by 2013’.

And finally, one that’s a little closer to home for those of us in the rural sector: From 2002 in UK media: ‘Famine In 10 years if we don’t give up eating fish, meat, and dairy’. It’s easy to see the agenda behind that one.

Now, if you have a lawyer, a financial investment advisor, or even worse your family doctor; if they get it wrong so regularly, I fervently suggest you find some alternatives, and as quickly as possible. Seriously!

am all for caring for our unique environment. Like many farmers, we take that seriously, as we do with animal welfare. However, I am not for hammering our nation’s hardest workers to pay for an ideology, that hides behind so called “settled science”.

Here’s what concerns me the most with this stuff. Why does our government continue to swallow advice from people who get it wrong with such monotonous regularity?

I have also learned the valuable life lesson and now have the maturity to be able to disagree with something, without being disagreeable, or just plain nasty.

My active faith has helped me immensely with that. Yes, people are more important than issues and opinions.

Keep well and God Bless.